James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
W. Winter
Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still.
Fate is character.
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances.
Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable.
Poetry is the language of feeling.
Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow.
There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say.
There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect.